A device has been created that can support the vital functions of the liver outside the body for a week.

A device has been invented that allows you to maintain the vital functions of the human liver and even restore cells outside the body for seven whole days.

Until now, the liver could be kept alive.Outside the body for a maximum of 12 hours. However, a group of surgeons, biologists and engineers from the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich, the University of Zurich and the local hospital made a breakthrough in transplant medicine, which will help save many lives of people with liver diseases and cancer.

After a weekBy connecting to the developed machine with the help of new perfusion technology, they were able to restore the full functionality of six of the ten human livers that were deemed unsuitable for transplantation.Although they still have to be transplanted, they have already fully recovered and are in good shape, which is important for the success of the operation.

According to the researchers, the equipment imitatesnatural processes of the body. After connecting the liver to special tubes, the machine pumps oxygen-enriched blood through it and removes the old one. Pumped blood passes through a filtering dialysis system that cleanses it like kidneys.

At the same time, the device maintains the temperature of the organ at 37 °C and brings out thebile comes out of it.

In addition to improving technicaldevices, scientists are discovering new methods of treatment. For example, researchers recently discovered a protein that turns cancer cells into normal body tissues.

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